The irony being that if you looked at all the laws/regulations/etc… that a lot of GOP members want to pass, and compare it to what a lot of Democrats want to pass, it’s pretty easy to see who is more in favor of “Sharia”-type laws, and it sure as fuck ain’t the ones that are always claimed by the other to be doing so.
I’m always reminded of the American Dad episode where the family relocates to Saudi Arabia, and surprise-surprise, it’s the staunch conservatives wet dream.
They were Republicans in their previous life.
OK, just having a bit of fun, there. But nonetheless, its striking how the most Communist of all the Communists seem to have become born-again capitalists. Turning their air into poison gas and their rivers into industrial waste repositories. Google “China cancer villages” if you want to run screaming from the room…
With the greatest possible respect, luci, it really should be elsewhere than in the SRIOTD thread.
Maybe the SDIOTD thread. I’m sure Clothy will be so thrilled to have some participation that he won’t mind…
Just to finish off this hijack, here is some info about what I meant:
The important thing here is that these monks are not just religious figures. They were the government prior to China taking over. Some Tibetans still consider them the government. The two most important are the Dalia Lama and Panchen Lama. They are responsible for identifying the next incarnation of the other. China has had a deep interest in this process for a while. Right now China has custody of two candidates for Panchen Lama.
This seems like a perfectly logical step to insure that once the Dalia Lama dies, they will have complete control over who is determined to be the next incarnation of the Dalia Lama. This is about cementing political control of Tibet.
Bull shit. If that were true they’d have come back as cockroaches or dung beetles.
Move over, Rand Paul, there’s a new candidate for biggest kook in the Senate;
[QUOTE=Ted Cruz]
There were fewer declared Republicans in [Harvard Law School] when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.
[/quote]
Nitpick: he identified the Marxists as faculty. The quote could be misinterpreted to mean that he was talking about students, the usual understanding of being “in Harvard Law School”.
Isn’t it astonishing how one can be educated as well as he and yet remain as ignorant as a block of wood?
Only if they were very, very good.
I’m thinking Teddy may be my new favorite Senator.
Uhm, it’s apparently been in effect since 2007 … which is when that post is from. 
More dumbassery:
Oklahoma May Deny Women Affordable Birth Control Because It ‘Poisons Their Bodies’
One state lawmaker wants to continue stripping insurance coverage for reproductive health services, advancing a measure that would allow employers to refuse to cover birth control for any reason — based solely on the fact that one of his constituents believes it “poisons women’s bodies.”
[INDENT]Jolley said the measure is the result of a request from a constituent, Dr. Dominic Pedulla, an Oklahoma City cardiologist who describes himself as a natural family planning medical consultant and women’s health researcher. […]
Women are worse off with contraception because it suppresses and disables who they are, Pedulla said.
“Part of their identity is the potential to be a mother,” Pedulla said. “They are being asked to suppress and radically contradict part of their own identity, and if that wasn’t bad enough, they are being asked to poison their bodies.”
The bill has already cleared a Senate Health committee and now makes it way to Oklahoma’s full Senate.[/INDENT]
Sen. Rand Paul ‘not familiar with the details’ of anti-abortion bill he sponsored
At a press event in Kentucky, LEO Weekly asked Paul why he supported the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, but not the Violence Against Women Act. Paul replied he was “not familiar with the details” of the anti-abortion bill.
:eek:
What’s next, a bill to compel every parenting-age Oklahoman to join the Quiverfull Movement (complete with an Oklahoma State Department of Quiverfull Membership Enforcement)?
Replace “mother” with “parent” and this same rhetoric can be used to ban vasectomies.
Said it before. Say it to Jesus if he asks. Parenting is the most rewarding, fulfilling and worthwhile experience in my life. And I wouldn’t do it again for all the whiskey in Ireland.
Or condoms. Or the rhythym method.
I looked him up, and this guy should be a superstar. By all accounts, he was a brilliant student, speaker, and debater, editor of the Harvard Law Review, dream legal career, etc.
Now he’s saying that the Harvard Law faculty is riddled with commies who want to overthrow the US government, and demanding answers to questions about Hagel taking money from North Korea, which he just made up.
Why do people like this turn to the dark side?
Cookies?
Just going home.
While Joe McCarthy might be the politician Ted Cruz most resembles, I’d say in some ways he’s more like that other red-baiting scum, Richard Nixon. And it worked for Nixon, that’s why he did it.
A joke from radical leftys of the 1950’s: You know which Communist Party members are undercover FBI agents? They’re the only ones who pay their Party dues on time.